Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

Scientists already know that a planet must be in the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot and not too cold—to have liquid water, a ...

The life cycle for a particular star depends on ... In this instance, the star becomes a white dwarf which fades and changes colour as it cools.

One is a hypothetical white dwarf that's passed through much of its life cycle and is on a slow path to stellar death. The other subject is Kepler-62, a "main sequence" star at a similar phase in ...

An international team of astronomers led by scientists from the Netherlands has shown that a white dwarf and a red dwarf ...

Researchers believe they've found evidence that a white dwarf may have torn a Jupiter-sized planet apart. A white dwarf is the stellar core left behind after a dying star has exhausted its nuclear ...

Moreover, there’s evidence of a white dwarf companion. The discovery is a close match for one made last year, and confirms the type of system that creates these signals, although we still don ...

The life cycle for a particular star depends on ... In this instance, the star becomes a white dwarf which fades and changes colour as it cools.